Reader ML (who speaks Spanish, just as a by the bye), sends along this Forbes article on the benefits of welfare vs. working for minimum wage. Blue states are the most generous in their involuntary transfers from the productive to the non-productive, which probably doesn’t surprise you, and Connecticut, while not at the very top of the redistribution chart, an honor that belongs to Hawaii, is right there in contention, paying $44,370 per year, or $21.33 per hour of loafing and breeding. And that’s tax free. What a country, what a state.

ILWU is scizophrenic on this issue; although it favors a governmental single payer system, its beef with AFL/CIO was that ILWU’s so-called Cadillac Plan is slated for extinction, and they’re pissed off that AFL/CIO bargained away their good plan. It wasn’t supposed to work out that way, don’t ‘cha know?

The Duke has spoken to several very successful NYC friends who work at firms like GS and Sullivan and Cromwell. They are at the age where they can retire and they will leave NYC if Bill the Redistributor gets in. And these
are people who heart NY.

The Duke despises The Nanny, but it’s hard to argue that NYC is humming pretty nicely now — why would the voters want to put in guy who is 180
the other way? Oh yeah, that’s why…

The department of Revenue for the City of NY and State of NY will put up a difficult fight when your friends try to re establish their domicile somewhere else and stay at their current firms. They view it as NY income unless that office moves too or unless you can show you really are working from a new office. They dont respect home offices.